When the lions come, and they turn to fight
Will you lose your soul? Will you lose your pride?
Cause the only thing they need's to smell a drop of fear inside
When the lions come, will you turn to fight?
Yeah, they try to stop me, try to box me in the ring
But I'm rocky, indeed I'm a rumble
If the lions come, I am, uh, gonna be deemed new king of the jungle
I came from the bottom, well, it's not a problem
You know they got iron and chrome, and they fire at homes
And they hold more grams than retirement homes
I made it out all on my own, the homies know I was alone
But they be calling my phone if they needed some money
In other words, I was alone, now I'm in the zone
Should've been another statistic, but I said * it, I'll risk it
Looked death right in the face and I kissed it
No evidence and no trace of the lipstick
Now ain't nobody gon' stop me now
Ain't nobody gon' knock me down
I'm from the school of the hard knocks
Breaking doors down, they try to lock me out
If you stayed to fight, then you might've won
But they caught your ass, cause you tried to run
Meet John B. Black, he's in the fighting stance
When the lions come, lions come, lions come
When the lions come
And they turn to fight
Will you lose your soul?
Will you lose your pride?
Will you lose your pride?
Cause the only thing they need's to smell
A drop of fear inside
When the lions come
Will you turn to fight?
Yeah, let me hit her like this, let me rip her like this
So sick, don't spit, I'll vomit, bomb it
Wearing the freshest of garments
Blowing up, yeah, we the bomb
It's never cocky, I'm just honest
Rapping our time, it's whoa
Marilyn, what I be rapping?
The second I step in, I murder like weapon
Let me bring the check and I hit you like Tekken
I'm gone, whatever record I'm on
I just wreck it, then I'm gone
R-A-T-T-P-A-C-K-V's up all day
Yeah, we do it all the way
I push white keys like Beethoven
While black keys drop sixteens
Like the Sistine, that's so mean
Hell yeah, that's so clean
Can I get it? Let me get it
I gotta get it, I gotta spit it from the heart
Let me tear it apart, live in the real life
Everybody wanna wonder what it feel like
Rock with the drop top, living on top
Let me get it, I gotta get it to pop
When they bopping their head
When they rocking the bed
If I couldn't do this, then I'd be dead
Yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
When the lions come
And they turn to fight
Will you lose your soul?
Will you lose your pride?
Cause the only thing they need's to smell
A drop of fear inside
When the lions come
Will you turn?
Beautiful mind
Yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh
When it's unreasonable to think
That keys won't leave MCs extinct
I never had a reason to
Until now to get that spirit
Hit that beat
See me swerving like Steve Irwin
Through herds of nervous MCs
I sink my teeth in their verses
Each feature becomes a piece
Lay back, relax in my den
Get paid from the royalties
And bring it back to the back
And just let my family eat
I'm a predator on this beat
Every metaphor is my prey
My war rumbles your feet
I place your hat on my tray
I'm letting your girl pat me
Run fingers all through my mane
The pride of a dying breed
With the power of a man's heart
The ferocity in my veins
At the top of the food chain
The philosophy is the same
So look properly
So one day they won't throw you in no cage
Keys is king of the jungle
No rumbling with the snakes
You run it when I'm on the prowl
I pound you, can't keep the pace
You know I've been earning stripes
Got zebra print on my face
Gotta make it a party
And see the world through my wardrobe
Like Narnia
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Beautiful Mind